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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931.

ERA OF TALKING Amy, in Hankow, 1 In Tientsin, COLONY'S CENSUS

PICTURES.

Western Electric Sound Systems.

SERVICE OFFICE HERE.

Years before any one visualised

Bound.

1 in Peking, and three in Hong Kong. The three theatres equipped ?> in Hong Kong are:-Queen's, (Central, and the Majestic Theatres.

The Queen's Theatre opened in Why November, 1929, the Central in, June, 1920, and the Majestic in October 1930. The new theatre in Queen's Road, the King's, has already signed for A Western! Elpetric Sound system.

20

over

OF 1931.

Saturday, March 7,

Was Fixed.

NO ULTERIOR MOTIVE.

however,

THE CHINA MAIL.

VOLUNTEER CORPS

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.

NEW 2ND LIEUTENANT.

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., commanding Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, are as under:

PARADES.

Battery.

There will be a lecture at Head-

Gnr. Laughton

No. 1258 Sigmn. W. C. Simpson, Corps Signals, is transferred to Engineer Company with effect from January 30.

Promotion.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Martin Ingram de Ville to be Second Lieutenant In the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence, Corps with effect from January

27.

Struck Off the Strength. No. 1292 Bdm. P. T. Rozario, Corpa Band, as from January 30, having completed three years ser- vice.

Leave.

Captain M. A. Johnson, M.M., returned from leave on January

| VOCAL GEMS FAVOURITES

ALWAYS POPULAR

D.X. 159 D.X. 81

D.X. 73

Columbia

The Merry Widow.

- Maid of the Mountains.

A Country Girl.

D.X. 56 -The Three Musketeers.

D.X. 38

Patience.

D.X. 21

- An Old Time, "Sing Song."

D.X. 17

- Iolunthe.

9890

Paul Ruben's Memories.

9893-

Merric England.

9883

Lionel Monckton Memories.

on

With reference to Corps Ordera No. 1/31 dated January 2.

9872

Maritana.

9831

Engineer Company. Monday-Miniature Range shoot

5.30 p.m.

Corps Signals. Parades will be held at Corps leadquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tues-

aay and Friday,

Machine Gun Troop. Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday for Machine Gun Instruction.

Corps Strength.

Instead of the Corns strength being published in Orders, a copy of same will be sent to all O's.C. Units for checking purposes.

(Sgd.) W. H. G. GOATER,

Captain..

Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Volunteer Cricket Week. The Volunteer Cricket Week will be held during Race week and the following matches have been arranged:-

It will have been observed that a the talking picturea us a world Western Electric Sound Systems B has recently boon introduced in wide entertainment, the engineers throughout the world are serviced the Legislative Council of the and chemists of the Bell Telephone by engineers specially trained for Colony entitled "An Ordinance to Laboratories, the largest research their work and it is through this make provision for taking from organisation in the world devoted staff that the equipment maintains time to time a Census of the to the development of the voice s smooth and uninterrupted Colony." New regulations govern quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday transmission and which is jointly operation after the installation.'ing the taking of a Census will also for the following:-- awned by the American Telephone The service staff have two duties; shortly be made and a Census Ordo 8.S.M. Puncheon Bdr. De Ville

26. and Telegraph Company and the! ene, to forestall as far as possible will be promulgated by His Excel- R.Q.M.S. Davies Ger. Highet

Liout. R. K. Valentine, Armour- Western Electric Company, wore equipment, troubles by periodic lency the Governor in Council Bdr. Black

ed Car Company, Car Section, experimenting with the possibiliuspections and two, to remedy directing that a Census of the Bar. Lamend tics of synchronising sight and trouble when it, does occur, in as population of Hong Kong shall b Range Takers as already detail.ranted leave from February 1 to

December 1. brief a space of time as possible. taken on the night of March 1, at 5.30 p.m. at Headquarters on

No. 1519 Pte. W. E. Hunt, No. Their labour found its frst re- How effective the first duty is 1931.

Thursday,

1 Platoon, granted leave from ward when the Warner Bros. pre-has been evidenced by statistics, This is the usual decennio)

Signal Section-Parade at 5.30 January 19, 1931, to January 19, scated on August 6, 1926, John Out et 95,000 performances given Census, the last census having been.m. at Hendquarters on Thursday 1932, Barrymore in "Den Juan" and Will weekly

Western Electric taken in Hong Kong on April 24 for map reading, etc. H. Hays, Anna Case, Mischa Sound Systems, the programme in 1921, and it is expected that a Layers as detailed last week at Elman. Martinelli, Zimbalist and terruptions at the present

time Censue will be taken in every part 5.30 pm at Gun Club Hill the New York Philharmonic Oraumber less than one tenth of one of the British Empire in the course Thursday. chestra in short subjects. Subse-'per cent. In the case of emergency of this Spring. It is not possibly quently the presentation of Al, there is a service man within half to have the Census taken on the Jolson the Jazz Singer and also! hour's journey of half the same day throughout the Empire at in the Singing Fool established Western Electric Equipped theatres though it is aimed that there should without a doubt the future of talks in the U.S.A. and even the isolated be as short a period as possible be- ing pictures and resulted in the theatres have a service man within tween the dates chosen, in the transition of motion pictures from a day's journey. In China we soveral parts of the Empire. April the silent form to the Lalking have a service man available with 26 is the date axed for the United variety.

in half an hour's journey.

Kingdom. The first sound and talking films The Electrical Research Pro-

Local Considerations, were recorded, over Western Elec-ducts Inc. which is the distribution Local considerations, tric Sound Systems, the system de-company for the Western Electric, have caused an earlier date to b

Armoured Car Company.

Monday, March 2-v, Kowloon 'veloped in the Bell Laboratorics Sound Systema in USA. have re-chosen In Hong Kong, namely,

Car Section--Parade on Monday Cricket Club at Kowloon. and the first theatres in which the, placed 1,470 of various kinds of March 7, Chinese New Year's Day it Corps Headquarters at 5.30 Tuesday, March 3-y The Army pictures were heard were also equipment in the theatres with falls on February 17 and the great.m. for Driving Instruction.

at Hong Kong Cricket Club ground. equipped with Western Electric Western Electric reproducing Tsing Ming Festival on April Motor Cycle Section-A talk on Wednesday March 4-v. The equipment, and at the present It was desirable to have the dateMap Reading and Field Mea- Combined League at Hong Kong Within a short period the lead-time one-half of our installations of the Census some time after theures" will be given by the Ad-Cricket Club ground. ing makers of movies have signed are replacements of equipments Now Year so that business condjutant at 5.45 p.m. in Lecture Teams will be announced lafer. definite contracts to make talking tast either reproduced inadequate- tions should be as nearly normas Room on Monday. pictures by the Western Electric ly or were not supported by the as possible and to leave two to thres Machine Gun Company. System exclusively.

necessary acoustic advice to pro- weeks intervening before Tsin Parade - The Company will Warner Bros, who had pioneered, vide the best possible reproduction. Ming when it is the duty of every parade "in mufti at 5.30 p.m. at with the disc method of recording Lacking a nation wide service Chinese adult male to return, if he Volunteer Headquarters on Tues- and reproductig were the first, staff, some were unable to assure car, to his native village to worship day with rifle, belt and bayonet. Fox Pictures, which had been ex uninterrupted operation or to main at his ancestral tombs. It was de- This is the practice for G.0.C. In- perimenting with a film method of tain repairs with the minimum of cited therefore that the first 10 spection. recording and reproducing were delay by having an adequate sup days of March were likely to prove Musketry-Machine Gun Com- the next to sign. In short order, ply of replacement parts through most suitable and Saturday, Marcpany Rifle Club will meet at Peak Paramount, Universal, United but the world.

7, was chosen

Range at 9 a.m. to-morrow. Bonge Artists. Metro-Goldwyn, First

One of the most important faOfficer: Lieut. II Owen-Hughes. National, Columbia, Hal Roach, The Western Electric Company tors in the success of a Census is

Scottish Company. Metropolitan Studios and Sono Art have a small portable equipment the attitude of the people to it. It Parades on Thursday took out licences to usa this

for use in connection with educa- is imperative that the sympathy Machine Gun Instruction. Bystem. Together these producers tional and advertising films.

and co-operation of the whole popust No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters There are Reveral films now lation should be enlisted so far as at 5.30 p.m. ander Captain H. R. To-night Dinner Dances at available and many more are is possible or at worst that any Forsyth.

Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels. being made, they are:-Pro- misgiving or resentment at the ap No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Dock

To-night Annual Concert and Blearn's philosophy of parent inquisitiveness of Govern-under Lieut. A. Duncan, N.B.E.

Dance, Morrison Hall, University. child life and education, ment should be dispelled. The law Musketry The Company will Monday-Whist Drive, St. John's "The Creative. Approach to provides penalties against non-fire Musketry Part II. at Stonecut-Cathedral Hall, 8.15 p.m. Education," "The Study of Infant co-operation or ány obstructiveters on Sunday, February B.

Entertainments. Behaviour" by Dr. Arnold Gesell tactics

that may be em-Launch will leave Queen's Pier at To-day - Queen's Theatra of the Yale University, "Accom-ployed by individuals but its am.. calling at. Kowloon Police "Man Trouble." plishment Tests for Babies" by Dr.is earnestly hoped that it will Pier at 9.10 a.m. Range Officer:

Today Central Theatre Charlotte Buhler of the Phychology ever be necessary to Invoke the Captain H. R. Forsyth.

"Love Comes Along." Institute in Vienna, and a sound assistance of the law but that each

To-day Majestic picture demonstrating the tech- and every individual will assist to

"Her Private Life," nique of mental testing by Mrs. their uttermost.

Tho-day — World Ina Craig Sartorius, and problems

"Mother Love."

Reproducing Systems,

fessor

Educational Films,

Stimulating Interest.

for

Portuguese Company, Parades-Nos, 9, 10, 11. and 12 Platoons will parade at Headquar ters on Friday under platoon ar- rangements..

of teaching methods by Dr. W. H. In order to stimulate interest in "No, Sir, the editor's not in.".

Kilpatrick and many others by the Census a few articles will ap No. 12A Platoon will parade at "Well, I wonder if you would specialists in various sciences, pear from time to time in the Miniature Range for musketry. mind putting this noem in the

The Electrical Research Pro- China Mail and Sunday Herald. It is most essential that every one waste-paper basket for me?"-

ducts Inc., in the U.S.A. have The material for these articles has should attend the parades in Aussic, Sydney equipped over 100 broadcasting been provided by the Superinten- future in preparation for the Gen-

stations with equipment designed dent of Census who has opened anral Officer Commanding Inspec represent about 85 per cent. of to play ordinary phonograph re-office on the second floor of the tion. Hollywood's annual output of cords and also the discs as used Mercantile Bank Building. No All rifles and bayanets not yet feature films.

Bound-on-discs productions. originality is claimed for these returned to Corps Stores must be Britain and Continent.

These discs are 16 inches wide, articles and the Superintendent returned Immediately. Some time later the British and they revolve at 38.1/3rd revs. per acknowledges his indebtedness' to

Corps Band. Dominion Co., Elstrec, England, minute and will play for 10 several sources-Eltel's History of There will be, a Band Practice the "Les Studios Paramount" minutca.

Hong Kong, the Census Report of at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 (Kane Studios), France, and the No Extraneous Sounds. the Commonwealth of Australla for pm. sharp on Monday and Wed- Braunberger-Richebe Studios, Bil The Western Electric New Pro- the Year, 1911, and various Census uesday, lancourt, France, signed contracts cess Noiseless Recording, consider reports and other publications of

Annual Rifle Meeting, Hong Kong and other Colonies.

"Les

for

· Lecture Room.

4

SHADOWS BEFORE

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functions. To-day--Tea Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.

The New Moon. 9761- Follow Through, 9622 Pirates of Penzance.

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Theatre.

Theatra

Correct Styles FELT HATS :—

Andrews,

Battersby,

Borsalino,

Cambiaghi,

Hardeman,

To-day

Star "The Little Adventurer."

To-day Theatre Royal West- minster Glee Singers, (matinee), S p..

Home Malls. To-day-Inward from Europe via Siberia (Tjibadak).

Land Sales. Monday-At P.W.D.

Offices. three lots of Crown land, 8 p.m.

Sporta, Bee Diary on page 9.

Moeting.

Monday Annual Inspection

noon.

February 10-H. K. Land In- vestment & Agency Co., Ltd., ordinary meeting, Messrs. Jardine for making films over Western of the greatest advance in Its field

There will be Committee Meet-Matheson's Offices, 12.30 p.m. Electric Recording Equipment, in the last four years, is the Elec- It seems desirable to impressing in the Lecture Room at Volun-

Miscellaneous. also the British Movietone News, trical Research Products Inc. on every one at the beginning that taer Ileadquarters of 5.30 p.m. on Paramount, His Masters Voice Co. (Subsidiary of the Western Elec-the taking of a Census this year is Tuesday. One representative from of St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Columbia Graphophone uso tric Co. for the distribution of a normal act of Government; that cach Unit will attend: and any South China Athletic Football Western Electric Recording equip. Western Electric Sound Systems). we in Hong Kong are merely fol- Officers who wish to attend. Ground, 6.15 p.m. ment in England.

latest contribution to the art of lowing the lend given to us by the

February 19-Entrica close for The recording equipment for the talking pictures. It is a system Home Government, which will also The Lecture Room Is allotted to Horticultural Society's Annuai Studioa Paramount" was for recording that eliminates all be followed by all the other parts the Battery every Thursday even-Show of Flowers and Vegetables, Installed in an old chateau bulit by extraneous sounds, hissing, and of the Empire. There is no ing unt!! further notice. Chevalier de Berey in Louis XIV scratching noises.

ulterior motive in taking the

Parade Ground. reign. This was taken over by

February 25-Horticultural So The new process was developed Ceasus now; it is not being done From and including Wednesday,..ciety's Annual Show of Flowers and Robert T. Kane, who ordered the in the Electrical Research Pro with a view to introducing such February 11, the 'Corps Parade Vegetables, City Hall. first Western Electric equipment inducts Inc. West Coast Laborn things sa a poll tax, an income tax, Ground, Drill Hall and Miniature Continental Europe. The pictures tories and the first picture pro- or any other taxation; there is no Range (when not required by the are made in many languages-duced utilizing it is Paramount's proposal to take action as regards Band Miniature Range Club) will French, Swedish, Polish, Dutch, "The Right to Love," starring Ruth any overcrowding that may exlat: beat the 'disposal of the Pipe

• Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chatterton.

and various other rumours which Band of the Scottish Company AMERICAN Czecho-Slovakian Hungarian and The development of this new may arise as they have done in the

Transfer.... German, and from out of this multi-process is the result of many years past regarding the object of the No. 682 Pte. W. C. Clark, Chemical Diamonds and equal to real lingual whirlpool there is a steady work on the part of the sound en- Census may be discounted at once. Armbured Car Company, Motor diamonds in brillanes, lustro and stream of pictures that go all over gineers of the B.T.L. and ERPI There is no reason for taking the Cycle Section, is transferred to hardness. Cut glasses like real dia- Europe.

monds. Proof against fire, stoel Ale to eliminate the "ground noises" Census now other than the usual Corps Signals with effect from and natric acid. Ptica per carot Western Electric Sound Systems which have marred the enjoyment objects in view in the taking of allnuary 30.

HK. $5 nett. Terms Cash or C.O.D, are manufactured at the 211 acre of talking pictures. Now it is Consuecs.

No. 614 Pte, A. J. Wadmore, Re- The American Chemical, Diamond Hawthorne Works of the Western possible to record and reproduce

Co., F.O. serve Company, is transferred to STRAITS.SETTLEMENTS,

Box 360. Electric Company, Chicago,

the slightest of Bounds without While Canada's apple crop this Corps Signals, with effect from This company has for 60 years having them "masked" or covered year, running to about 3,165,936 January 30, made the equipment for the ass0-up by these extraneous, hissing barrels, is 20,000 barrels below the ciated companies of the Bell Tele- and scratching noises.- "Every five year average, it will probablý phone Systems and it is the worlds syllable of even the softeat spoken be one of the best crops for many largest organisation devoted to the words, whispering and sobbing be-years. Practically 90 per cont. of manufacture, of voice transmission come clearly audible. This now it is being shipped out under the method of recording has increased now recommended rules of the The uniformity of quality, which the range of volume in recording Dominion Fruit Branch. These is a feature of Western Electric and reproducing and a number of rules have two advantages: the Sound Systems, has been made pos- the printipal producers are already number of grades is reduced to two, sible by highly standardized de-equipping their studios to take ad- No. 1 and Domestic; and apples are volopment and manufacture andvantage of the improvement.. The jacked by size with a sprend of less to-day there are over 7,500 theatres new method requires some add-than one quarter of an inch. throughout the world using West-tional equipment and changes h

apparatus.

ern Electric Sound Reproducing the present recording equipment if it is to handle noiselessly ple Systems. Of this total there are and it requires a higher standard tures recorded in this new way. 5,000 in U.S.A., over 1,000 In of developing and printing films The Western Electric Company Britain, över 800 In Canada and than the already exacting tech-jof Asta, Room 32, Capitol. Building, over 300 in Australia, over 200 in nique of sound pictures demands. 27 Museum Road, Shanghai are the Europe and over 100 In New Zea- The reproducing equipment in the China distributors for Western fand.theatred, will likewico demand most Electric Sound Systems. The ser- Theatres in Hong Kong.reful rooming and maintenancece office fa Hong Kong, for Thers are 11 theatres equipped

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